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Sep 05 2009
West Needs to Look Beyond Karzai in Afghanistan
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By MWC News   

Afghan president, Mr. Hamid Karzai has many faces, like the colors of his trademark billowing chapan (cloak).  One shines in his antipathy towards Afghan intelligentsia and another in his indissoluble bond with the Afghan warlords.  His election campaign exposes this rancor more explicitly nowadays when he is using his usual tactics— intimidation, bribery and back door dealings—to secure himself a second term in the upcoming election and help warlords and his siblings hold on to ill-gotten wealth and power.

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Tags:  Ehsan Azari Hamid Karzai Afghan warlords Afghan Intellectuals
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Enough Is Enough in Afghanistan
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By MWC News   

As Americans are gradually discovering, the 8-year occupation of Afghanistan is about opposing the Taliban’s attempt to regain political power, not about capturing or killing Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda.

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Jaycee Lee Dugard and the Drug War
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By MWC News   

An interesting question arises in the case of Phillip Garrido, the man who allegedly kidnapped 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard, raped her, and kept her captive for almost 20 years: Did the drug war play a role in this horrible event?

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Tags:  Jacob G. Hornberger Jaycee Lee Dugard Drug War Phillip Garrido
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Torture Works. Just Ask U.S. POWs from the Korean War
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By MWC News   

An August 29 Washington Post article entitled “How a Detainee Became an Asset” details how the CIA’s “harsh interrogation techniques” caused Khalid Sheik Mohammed to become a CIA “asset,” meaning that he sung like a canary, confessed his crimes, disclosed everything he knew, and cooperated with the CIA.

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Tags:  Jacob G. Hornberger Torture U.S. POW Korean War
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Prosecute the Torturers
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By MWC News   

It’s interesting to see conservatives calling for the U.S. Attorney General to ignore evidence that people have knowingly violated federal criminal laws against torture. Aren’t conservatives usually the law-and-order crowd in this country?

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Tags:  Jacob G. Hornberger Torturers Conservatives U.S. Attorney General
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